TURA: SSA school teachers from Garo Hills under the banner of the All Garo Hills SSA School Teachers’ Association (AGHSSASTA) have on Monday urged the state government to clear their many pending dues.
According to a statement issued here, their pending arrears for the months of April and June 2016, including that of March 2017 was disburse by the earlier government last year, although it was not in compliance with the PAB 2016-17. A large portion in arrears and salary is yet to be received by the teachers.
“We are yet to receive eight months arrears from July 2016 to February 2017. We demand that the same is released at the earliest along with two months’ salary for April and May 2018,” association President, Stickson B Sangma said.
The teachers are in a dilemma on how to pay children’s school fees to be allowed to sit for the half yearly exams as well as admission fees for those recently passing the MBOSE’s Class X and XII examinations.
Further, the teachers said that as most of them are posted in far away rural areas, it would be impossible to manage travel expenses to get to their schools if the government failed to release their pending salaries and arrears by the 15th of this month.
The association urged the state government to take swift action and release all pending dues in time as per the PAB of 2016-17.
